Former Polish PM joins critics of government pension plan


  • World
  • Saturday, 07 Sep 2013

WARSAW (Reuters) - A former Polish prime minister and a central bank policymaker joined critics of the government's overhaul of the pension system, rejecting the plan on Friday as "harmful for the economy" and "makeshift".

Poland said on Wednesday it would transfer 121 billion zlotys ($37 billion) in bonds from privately-managed pension funds to the state and cancel them to reduce public debt.

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